Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
MAALBEEK
Synopsis
Survivor of the attack at Maalbeek metro station on 22 March 2016 in Brussels, Sabine has no recollection of this monumental event. Everyone remembers this day but her. Sabine is in search of this missing image. But is this absence what allows her to move on with her life?
Synopsis
Survivor of the attack at Maalbeek metro station on 22 March 2016 in Brussels, Sabine has no recollection of this monumental event. Everyone remembers this day but her. Sabine is in search of this missing image. But is this absence what allows her to move on with her life?
Our take
Grappling with the aftermath of a terrorist attack, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis’s César-winning short ponders the fragility of memory. The use of pixelated animation, which translates a survivor’s amnesia into woozy clouds of tiny particles, powerfully articulates the fragmented experience of PTSD.